In brief

Review of Ealing Hospital A&E downgrade is rejected: Ealing Council has lost its bid for a judicial review of the proposed downgrading of Ealing Hospital’s accident and emergency department. It is one of four hospitals—along with Charing Cross, Hammersmith, and Central Middlesex—that could see their A&E departments replaced by urgent care centres as specialised emergency care is centralised in five “super hospitals” in northwest London. A final decision will be taken by the health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, after he receives a report from an independent panel …